Re: Object toolbar in 1.1.17

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:39:16PM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 May 2003, I wrote:
> >
> > > How do I get rid of the Object toolbar in gnumeric 1.1.17?  I had my
> > > preferences set for previous gnumeric versions (<= 1.1.16) so that
> > > this toobar did not show, but it is displayed 1.1.17 and I can't find
> > > a menu item to suppress it.
> >
> > OK, found the problem.  My libgda was not sufficiently up to date, so
> > gnumeric 1.1.17 didn't get linked against it, so I didn't get the
> > Preferences option to view or not the various toolbars and my old
> > gconf preference for hiding the Object toolbar was not read and
> > respected.
> >
> > If that's the right diagnosis, it seems it would be better to either
> > (a) make libgda a requirement or (b) rejig the preferences code so
> > that it doesn't depend on libgda.
>
> I suspect something else is at work.  The bonobo enabled version has
> preferences for enable/disable toolbars.  The non-bonobo version
> does not.  libgda probably did not come into play.

OK, the toolbar view/hide started working after I (a) updated libgda
and (b) added "--with-bonobo" to the configure. I guessed wrongly as
to which of these changes made the difference.

But I'd make the same comment, mutatis mutandis.  Should the ability
to view/hide toolbars really be in hock to bonobo?  If so, shouldn't
"with-bonobo" at least be the default (if the relevant files are
found) when building gnumeric?

Allin Cottrell.